The current situation in Balkans. War in Balkans

The War in Yugoslavia

By Empereur Wu. Wei  

Note: This is an introductory essay of a longer essay that I wrote few years ago when the Clinton administration begin the air bombing campaign. If you understand what "Bichika Gulaci" means, then we are talking.

PS: I was in D.C one day, and met this lovely and intelligent young lady named Christina C. She was there, in Yugoslavia back then, to help the Peace Keeping Mission, and she was just a college student. World need more people like this.

The current situation in the Balkans, a war - type conflict between the U.S/N.A.T.O alliance and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has established a problematic issue over New World Order. Mighty states are, in a condition of international anarchy, imposing their ruling in order to secure their position. However, it does not have to be emphasized as an act of American imperialism, as many have emotionally criticized, but a conflict within a bipolar system: on one hand, the developed industrialized and liberal countries known as the sphere of State of Peace; on the other, the Third World nations as the sphere of State of War.

 According to U.S/N.A.T.O, the attacks should be perceived as a strictly humanitarian mission, it is designed to aid and protect the oppressed Albanian population in Kosovo. By intervening within the Yugoslavs' internal affairs, that military intervention would have been designed to provide peace into that region.

Albanian Refugees

 Nevertheless, I do not believe that international relations rest on altruism, therefore, N.A.T.O' s argument does not seem proper and relevant. On the contrary, I perceive it as an act of Politique Commune, as the French President Chirac argued; a political frame that those western countries have emphasized as the standard of their international policy making. On the other hand, although the air strikes on Yugoslavia, particularly on the Republic of Serbia violate the customs of international law and the U.N Charter, since it is a matter of national scale, I do certainly recognize the attacks' legitimacy, in respect of the Universal Human Rights. Indeed, individual Kosovar Albanian rights, especially the right to live must be protected. It is fundamentally crucial of to not leave the history to repeat itself. Another important point to be noticed, is that this local conflict, it properly emphasize the contemporary dilemma in international law. May one State punish the violation of nature law inflicted by another state on the second state's own population? And should any forcible humanitarian intervention be internationally authorized?

Although U.S/N.A.T.O' s actions appear partially right, I deeply consider that a global gendarme is needed to maintain the security of the international community. Manifestly, industrialized countries do have a bias decision toward European and Non-European Sates affairs, nevertheless, N.A.T.O' s air strikes have somehow provided a positive frame of international safety cooperation. For that reason, I consider the international relations and cooperation are in a positive way of development.


 

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